On the six-month anniversary of her death, Al Jazeera revisits the story of how Shireen Abu Akleh highlighted the plight of a young man denied an ID by Israeli authorities for more than 20 years. In 2020, for her final project for a digital media diploma at Birzeit University, she focused on a young man, Fayez Kawamleh. For close to 22 years, Kawamleh was living a life of fear: he was denied an identity card by the Israeli authorities and could not get a job or travel – not even between different cities in
“We are six people in the family. We all live in the same house, under the same conditions. They gave half of the family ID cards and denied the rest. The only thing I can think of is that they are trying to push us to leave,” Kawamleh added, referring to Israeli authorities.
Read full article here (published 11 November 2022).